,Leeds Student Friday, September 29, 2000 11011:11" 111`1111`147"111114 `1"Ii:11""11 Volume 31: Issue No. 1 Should we pull uatemala's the plug on TV? homeless children juice pages 12-13 New intake struck by housing blunder Freshers face Life in the uncertain future in slow lane temporary lodgings by Toby Chasseaud by Dan Box 'TRAFFIC on roads stretching up from the city centre to Ileadingley ground to a halt at the weekend as the annual flood of students niumod MORE than one hundred freshen have hewn left in temporary from their slimmer retreats. accommodation after an administrative blunder by University Police. taxi firms and bus drivers all report• housing bosses. that I &ills is busier than ever. One cabbie said A leak describes how 123 students have been forced that on Saturday —you could hardly move. It to start the year isolated in temporary and Bed and Breakfast was shoe-a-block." Another driver was not accommodation while the University tries to find space impressed by the gridlock hut said it was nice for them. to welcome hack some "old customers". The leaked internal memo from Leeds University Supermarkets, dubs taxis and fast food shops Residential and Commercial Services (RCS) says "32 all reported surges in trade as 40.1N/0 students unlucky students will he on mattresses on Bodington floor stocked tip on microwave foal and Ikea coffee until they can be relocated." tables. Kashif, the burger seller on iNondhouse The University admits relying on students dropping Lane. between the two universities, said —1'm out of hulk before Christmas to provide places for those hack in business." who need them. A similar farce occurred two years ago 'Those who staggemd down the Orley Run when RCS left more than 3(1 freshers stranded in hall mourned the has of the Feast and Firkin, bemused libraries and common rooms. at having to go to "The Library" before lectures Geology fresher Steven Milligan has been given have even started. It was impossible to walk past temporary housing three miles out from the city centre the student unions without being bombarded on the Otley Road but the RCS plans to put his house back with Byers for club-nitdds, mobile phonts and on the market after Christmas. "We don't know what will obscure societies Freshers signed up in droves happen then." said Steven. "They haven't really told us. to elute: which they will never visit again_ We know we have to be out The airwaves, as well as the roads, were Fresher Rowena Cooper, studying Human Resource rammed after 7pm as students in their Hyde Management, is also outraged. "We just don't know Park hovels. Bodington or Kirkstall Brewer how they're going to sort it out. They haven't said anything Halls made use of the free off-peak call time on really." their noiMle phones and miser, of swore networks RCS Head David Irving tried to deny the crisis until were greeted with "net fair' tones. the leaked memo was read to him over the phone. He then Registration broutlit with it the usual headache played down criticisms, arguing that no one has yet of queuing for hours in the rain whk-h frustrated been forced to camp on the floor and that this is only "the everyone hut almost killed the few who didn't last in a series of contingency plans." realise they had no passport phut!. until they "The University regularly accepts one hundred extra reached the end of the long winding snake. students, expecting at least that many to drop out during But despite the queues then' was general the first term-The people affected are clearing candidates agreement that it's good to l• hack. who can't be guaranteed a place to stay." LEEDS-CLUBS VOTED BEST IN C • 2 Friday, September 29. 2000 news Leeds Student coloured sunglasses. Behind her Their commercial wing, NUS The Union got £625,000 over three stands her pimp whispering: "I am Services, offers companies "niche years and Bacardi got a promise your man you know, you are my marketing to tomorrow's decision that no union bar in the country Leeds Student woman. I wouldn't be anything makers.—The website includes a could sell any other brand of white without you." month by month breakdown of the rum, a direct abuse of the —umre=0152— That's Taxi Driver, where opportunities for companies to buy Competition Act. Both sides are Leeds Student is an independent Harvey Keitel plays Sport, the out our year at uni, ranging from keeping pretty quiet on this one, newspaper for students at Leeds pimp to Jodie Foster's Iris. He "halls of residence mailings up to but [(that ain t pimpology I don't University. Leeds Metropolitan University holds her tight and promises to 200,000 students' on your first know what is. and other colleges in and around Leeds. save her but all the same he just day to "Sponsorship of Graduation The NUS is holding everyone keeps on selling her. Bills with national and local close, buying and selling our time SKETCH It's a bit like NUS President coverage" at the end of it all. at university and whispering "I'm meetings Dwain James when he says he'll These companies are assured nothing without you. !can go like Dan Box save us from business and big returns on their money because. this for ever and ever, We can do it new writers always welcome baby. You and me. Just you and em's a pretty picture: it's government who are "no longer as a division of our Union, NUS the night before the new going to be able to get away with Services is "part owned by the very me.' (Sport slowly rubs his crotch into her. Iris smiles, She is happy. INTRODUCTORY term and fat cats are treating students as a piggy bank to you target. The crawling the kerbs looking raid" when all the time his NUS is Officoe of Fair Trading The music rises.) H letting big business raid more than investigating claims that Bacardi MEETING tar bait. Up on the pavement the dan InnOluntruilLeorn girl stands in her Chin dress and big. just our piggy banks. struck a sneaky deal with the NUS. MON 2ND OCT Leeds Student in line for 7PM LMU unveils awards again by Lucy Ballinger and Toby Chasseaud @ENTS HALL, LEEDS STUDENT has been shortlisted yet again for a number LEEDS learning centre of categories in the Guardian's Student Media Awards. After winning Best Student METROPOLITAN Newspaper in last year's Guardian by Will Adams and Independent awards, we now UNION, have nominations in five categories: Best Feature Writer CITY SITE COMPUTERS will now he available (Adam Blenfard and Polly Curtis). for use 24-hours a day at LMU after Best Reporter (Kimn Randhawa), the City Site's Leslie Silver Building Best Travel Writer (Polly Curtis), Come and get involved in was opened last Friday. The Diversity Award (Adam the paper The building houses an information Blenford), and Best Student and learning support centre with 350 Newspaper. open access PCs, as well as a library "It is a real honour to be NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY and multi-media facilities. nominated once again and follow The environmentally friendly on in the tradition of previous development on Woodhouse Lane cost years." said last year's editor. EDITOR Clare Rudebeck £20 million in total. and was partly Naveed Raja. "I think it's a tribute DEPUTY EDITOR Paul Gallagher funded by two £4 million grants from to the ability and hard work of all ADVERTISING MANAGER Dominic the Higher Education Funding Council those involved with the newspaper over the past year. We are now Barry for England. Levels of energy consumption in firmly established as the best ARTS Darren Ashby, Marion the building are kept low by advanced student paper in the country." Schelle, Shenker Sharma, Caroline lighting systems and its low carbon In last year's Guardian awards Watson emissions make it one of the mast energy Leeds Student was named BOOKS Catherine Ford, Lauren efficient structures in Europe. newspaper of the year and judged to have "surpassed the high quality Turner The building also has a state-of-the- art air conditioning system, which it has shown previously." COLUMN Toby Chasseaud, Jernima recycles warm air created by PCs in the Leeds Student also won last Sissons computer labs. year's Independent/NUS award for COMPUTER GAMES Paul A coffee bar, a campus bookshop Best Student Newspaper. James Gallagher and cash dispensers are located in the McCarthy was runner up in the new Mall. Best Feature Writer category with CLUBS Peter Kirk LMU students need not even leave other writers also receiving COMMENT Jonathan Mercian°, their homes to take ad.. •ntage of the nominations in other sections. Josh Salter extensive resources as all roe IT services Winners ofth is years Guardian CROSSWORD Robert Shepherd the building offers can be accessed by awards will be announced later this indepencienr awards will FEATURES David MacDonald telephone, fax or e-mail, year. The Three floors are taken up by the be announced shortly afterwards. FOOD AND DRINK Joel Cooper library which includes a Special Leeds Student prints 15,000 FUTURES Charlotte Dowser', Ruth copies and is distributed to Leeds Collection area housing valuable 11Ith STATE OF DIE ART: LfAll's new learning centre on Woodhouse Lane Yarrit and 19th century architectural books. University, LMU and affiliated GLOBAL SPACE Nicola Behrman The building was designed by only a decade ago.